It comes with the semi-truck version that can transform into Optimus Prime and includes additional weapons. What you should consider: It requires a lot of steps to transform it into Optimus Prime.

This self-transforming Optimus Prime by Robosen toy is available from Hasbro’s online store and costs $749.99. Disclosure: Hasbro sent me this toy for the purposes of this review.

An update of the first Optimus Prime toy ever is being grimly remixed for another new take on the Autobot leader's evil twin: ...

This time, it’s Transformers, the 1980s toy line of robots that change into vehicles and vice versa. The first set to emerge is none other than series hero Optimus Prime, leader of the good-guy ...

Most of Optimus Prime's appearances in animated productions and their respective toys have had his alternate mode as the Freightliner semi-truck or a fictional truck of visual similarity ...

This advanced Optimus Prime consists of 5000 components, 60 microchips, and 27 servo motors. It stands 19 inches tall in robot form. (But still looks pretty impressive in truck form.) ...

For those that missed out on the first Robosen Optimus Prime self-transforming toy, Robosen and Hasbro now have you covered with a slightly smaller but still entirely amazing Elite version of the toy.

Incidentally, there's a somewhat popular secondary theory that the original Optimus Prime toy's alternate mode was actually inspired by the Kenworth K100, another semi-truck with the flat-faced ...